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Just wondering is there other siliar communities that you are reading?
Show HN: An extension to hide garbage comments on Twitter (tidy-tweet.netlify.app)
What is the entropy of a ghost? Hauntology and the Dead Internet (notes.hella.cheap)
Android emulators to actually use mobile apps in day-to-day life?
Meme Soundboard – Play 500 Popular Meme Sounds Online Free (memesoundboard.live)
Refusing LinkedIn's ID verification is costing me my job
Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws (techcrunch.com)
Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT (gally.net)
The use of the em dash (—) now raises suspicions that a text might have been AI-generated. Inspired by a suggestion from dang [1], I created a leaderboard of HN users according to how many of their posts before November 30, 2022—that is, before the release of ChatGPT—contained em dashes. Dang himsel...
House Republicans want to dox Wikipedia editors over 'bias' complaints (techdirt.com)
Bluesky CEO: I turned a Twitter research project into a rival company (cnbc.com)
No, Mastodon is not decentralized (victorwynne.com)
New reMarkable "Paper Pro Move" leaked to Reddit ahead of Sep 3 launch (old.reddit.com)
Show HN: Readn – Feed reader with Hacker News support (github.com)
This feed reader can fetch and display discussion threads from Hacker News and Lobste.rs, making it convenient to follow both articles and the conversations around them. It’s a fork of the original Yarr project, whose author considers it feature-complete and is no longer accepting feature requests.
Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws (techcrunch.com)
Default Search Engine: Wikipedia (paste.sr.ht)
Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human (vivaldi.com)
Wikipedia as a Graph (wikigrapher.com)
Egypt rounds up teenaged TikTokkers in crackdown on social media (reuters.com)
Presenting... PrizeForge: a novel crowdfunding model for sustainable open-source and fighting enshittification
Join the Lobsters Blog Carnival
A [blog carnival](https://indieweb.org/blog_carnival) sees everyone write a blog post about a topic. We chose the topic (see below) through a [vote](https://lobste.rs/c/m9pndn). On the 24th of September, I will [post](https://lobste.rs/c/gfkq3p) the carnival thread here where you can link your artic...
Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news
Func Prog Podcast Episode 9 - Hécate (youtube.com)
Blogging service TypePad is shutting down and taking all blog content with it (arstechnica.com)
MAGA Puts Wikipedia in the Crosshairs (reddit.com)
Is it possible to easily finetune an LLM for free?
How to improve your mental health and scroll social media at the same time (chadnauseam.substack.com)
Default Search Engine: Wikipedia (paste.sr.ht)
Republicans in Congress open probe into Wikipedia for alleged bias (usatoday.com)
Show HN: GrowChief – open-source social media outreach tool (github.com)
Wikipedia Articles with a FAQ section for editors (en.wikipedia.org)